Greed Vs Need Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Greed vs need

They keep you on surface
-and busy with surfing
-amused and playing
-pleasure it can be!

I rather see seabed
-deep, diving.

In Dubai
-where towers are too tall
-locally, area and worldwide
-long, too long, is the list of crime
-longer than going to core of Earth
-and if to galaxies the farthest of stars.

All buried and hidden
-right beneath the cheap talk;
-talk of wealth, beauty, attraction!

I was there!
I was there!
I was there!

For long years
-during the changes
-and saw all, as concerned,
-some fallen, curious, researcher.

The best and greatest was at first:
- "The Iran's Hospital".
-a mirror with two sides
- (even more)

Hospital was advanced
- (for its time)
-good system, best doctors
- (better than many that existed in Iran)

Aligned were the workers
-with agents
-working for politics
-and cultures

In short,
-worked as eye and ear
-for regime of Iran

The patients
-all spoke in Persian

Arabic was useless
-and nonsense…

Sharjah was the largest
-most advanced
-in Western Standards
-had been base for Brits
-after fall of Ottomans
-First World War
-the Sheikh was proud to
-have roots in Iran.

The land of desert and Oasis
-was worthless, divided
-among some old, young sheikhs.

Their best games
-eat insects
-coexist with camels
-men touching their own balls
-to move them and play.

An Arab was happy with catching
-simply, single fish till next day.

Their women in niqab
-and burned some scents
-which they set underneath the skirts
- (between legs)
-to remove the smell and stink of sweat?

Tea
Tea
Tea

They poured while
The pot was far of cup
-this action made bubbles
-reminding the camel
-opening the hind legs
-to pee far, on ground
-amber or yellowish, bubbled.


I saw the politics
-few years before then.

Politics
Politics
Politics

I saw it in making
-when the child of mountains
-forcefully, displaced by flood
-became a city child
-had to work in bazaar
-and ended in Tehran
-child labour
-and school
-and ended in what I most hated
- (still do)
-uniform; and was sent to States.

Simple mind of plains
-fast changed with travels
- (I flew Hercules)
-acted as Shah's agent.

This land and that land and
-continents, governments
-their flags and anthems
-in times as, VIP
-liaison officer

Sudan and Saudi
-Oman and Jordan
-and to Egypt's Pyramids
-Lesotho and Kenya
-Saudi, in Riyadh
-most Europe
-and even to Sochi
-Soviet, or Russia

Opened eyes
-and changed mind.

Ten revolts in Iran
-the courts of injustice
-Pakistan, Emirates

Memories and knowledge
-the have seen, an expert
-was now dot, treated

Piece of shit!
Piece of shit!
Piece of shit!

And by who?
On what base?

Read and read
-worked and worked
-day and night
-very hard

For, against
-the brains and victims
-everyone, everywhere.

Established companies
-among heads had a name.

I was I
-unconcerned with money
-a candle, a lantern, a furnace
-after roads and skies and the seas.

Never cared for money
-as do the slaves and greedy
-or even the needy
-just touched it
-received, paid
-lived a life
-helped many and gave aid.

Correct or
-incorrect


My head was in my palms
-feet and legs on the run
-and brain too busy
- "What was that? "
- "What is this? "

During the hardships
-night drives to Oman
-Braimi
-buy tires from there
- (much cheaper)
-to sell them in Dubai
- (tires more expensive)
-I learned facts, pricing
-Japanese, agencies

And the games went on and
-went on and went on while
-I read but secretly
-the books of history
-facts of past buried to
-establish pyramids
-by blood and the lives
-of new slaves who
-act as did for Pharaohs

Tehran had changed
-was fact
-the workers who had had
-worked in the hospital
-were forced to new lives
-I knew some of them
-like "Golchins"
-they made a "Gallery"
-selling rugs and antiques
-to the sheikhs who were dogs
-for changes on the way
-upcoming by dirty politics
-politics, politics, politics
-and the wolves turned to dogs.

There I met Jenny White
-and husband, US Bob
-they surely received funds
-to attract Christians
-encourage the people to convert

Met Ashok, Indian, Kerala's
- (a worker, a reader, a writer)
-he worked for N-A-L
-in racking but searching
-archaeologies.

He came and brought me
-leaflets, books, among them
- "Dubai" by Robin Moore
- (fantasy, near fact…
-sheikhs friend is Mehdi the Tajer
-sheikh's mentor and leader and brain
-of Iran…

"The system is changing, deleting
-the Persians to turn it into the Arabic."
-said Ashok and much more.

And I read
And I saw
And I met

The lives of brothers
-kidnapped and stolen
-and erased forever
-Mansoor was the older
-and younger named Nasser
-both are gone as if they
-were not born to exist…
-this meant life in Dubai

And I was the bough of
-a tree, broken
-carried and set fire
-then left to degrade
-in breeze of the Gulf
-the Persian!

My heart was a gate for
-opposites and pros
-they came, talked
-in secret and open

Possibly some of them
-were spies for? ? ?

Mohammad was head of
-the police, or "Shorteh"
-had three brothers
-Maktoum and Hamdan and
-then Ahmad; the youngest.

I learned and followed the process
-in my life and Iran and around
-Persian Gulf and growth of the ports
-some were brought in after fall of the shah
- jebel Ali port is Iran's Chah-Bahar

I knew of the port and plans
-since was an officer and flew over there
-took supplies and even took a week time
-on my own, vacation
-studied the people and life when
-saw donkeys being used as the sex partners
-as well as for labour
-while locals had hardly the basics of the life
-water, food to bread.

This knowledge drove me
-to speak, take steps against shah.

We took gifts to leaders all around
- (if they were shah's friends; like the king
-of Jordan, Malik Hussein…)
-our people, of Iran,
-and mainly on borders
-were the most ignored and abandoned.

It was shame
-shame, shame, shame

Living in Dubai and Emirates
-was far worse
-to me was Ali Baba and the Lamp
-the Magic Crystal of old times.

It was hard
Hard, hard, hard
-very hard
-living with ignorant
-in land of ignorance
-smuggle and nomads
-and rarely the fishers
-satisfied with tummy
-and in max, its under
-nothing of the brain
-unless as in "Dubai"
-the Major who returns
-of Iran…Kurdistan…

This hell too, I had been
-I flew over it and said it
-in the older writings…

I found me some friends
-some of them among sheikhs
-one spoke of Deira and Dubai
-and Maktoum being his first uncle
- "He took our land and our position,
-has sent some into the prisons…"
-he said and explained: "I am forced…"
-was silent but fire under ash…
- "Can he be a phoenix? "
-has remained in me as
-a question…

The question is now for descendants
-of the well-known Sheikh Rashid
-Al Maktoum…

What about his first son?
-and second and the third?
-all is for Mohamad…

And Dubai keeps going
-for me a degrading
-though busy
-and busy

I hear of woman with husband
-of Iran who take tour of Dubai
-time had come to return, but
-she goes to purchase
-something and
-no return
-to hotel, Phoenicia
-anywhere…not ever…

And on roadsides
-see early, late at night
-mass of the young women
-most from divided Soviets
-fallen in poverty
-have to sell what they have
-nothing but their bodies…
-or the birds and snakes
- (the poor hawks and eagles.)
-and antiques like old texts.

This is time that friend
-rings and talks
- (of friend being shot,
-Shaabani…)

When shot and bleeding
-he had called and informed:
- "My shooter is…and is…
-on his way to States…"

They had had business
-Bahai' and Muslim
-with Iran.

Baha' has money, connections
-but is banned in Iran
-needs bridge…

The young man of US
-of Iran, at his base
-became a go-between

Did the deal go through?
-whatever, it ended in a bad dispute
- "Pay, if not…"

Then came day…
-he was sure of the death
-so confessed:
- "I kill you, in hours, I am in USA, "
-but bad luck for the man who shot gun.

The injured could make call
-and result ended in the police
-stopping the killer…

He can be…
-till today…
-behind bars…
-prisoned.

Murdered was greedy
-and killer, a needy

What is what?
What is what?
What is what?

These are just few things
-of diving into depths
-of ugly life around
-from depths! ! !